Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Twitterature – Mining Twitter Data

Hello again, everybody! I’m back this semester as a DH Prototyping Fellow, and together, Alyssa Collins and I are working on a project titled “Twitterature: Methods and Metadata.” Specifically, we’re hoping to develop a simple way of using Twitter data for literary research. The project is still in its early stages, but we’ve been collecting […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Taking a Sapphic Stanza – Papyri, Digital Humanities, and Reclaiming the Work of Ancient Women

This semester, I am teaching our department’s Archaic to Classical Greek Survey. I specialize in late antique Roman history and GIS, and thus this has been a departure from my normal research interests–and just one reason we are searching for a Homerist with DH skills right now. However, reading and teaching Greek does not mean that […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Digital Scholarship Specialist, Bryn Mawr

From the ad: The Digital Scholarship Specialist joins the new Digital Scholarship, Critical Making, and Digital Collections Management team in Bryn Mawr College’s dynamic Library and Information Technology Services (LITS) organization. The Digital Scholarship Specialist will be responsible for evolving a vision for the Digital Scholarship Program, formalized in 2016, that engages faculty, students, and […]

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Job: Developer Outreach & Testing Coordinator, UVA Scholars’ Lab

From the ad: The University of Virginia Library’s Scholars’ Lab is seeking a new Developer Outreach & Testing Coordinator. The Developer Outreach & Testing Coordinator reports to the Head of Research and Development of the Scholars’ Lab and applies their working knowledge of design and development to create technical documentation for both developers and non-technical […]

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Job: TT Position in Public and Digital History, Clemson

From the ad: The Department of History at Clemson University invites applications for a tenure-track position in Public and Digital History at the rank of assistant professor.  The successful candidate will take the lead in an emphasis area in public history for history majors and contribute to an emphasis area (and potentially a Ph.D. program) […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Rethinking the Republic of Letters – Two Perspectives on the Early Modern Learned Community

Early modern scholars oftentimes emphasised the ideal of sharing knowledge beyond confessional and national borders. But was the learned community of early modern Europe truly as open and accessible as these intellectuals proclaimed? Or did the Republic of Letters in action perhaps comprise a number of “sub-republics” divided along the lines of religion, discipline, region, […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: AIUCD 2019 – Italian Conference of Digital Humanities

From the CFP: The main topic of the AIUCD 2019 Conference is ‘Pedagogy, teaching, and research in the age of Digital Humanities’. The conference aims at reflecting on the new possibilities that the digital yields for pedagogy, teaching, and scholarly research: how will these transform teaching in the humanities? What contributions can humanistic cultural critique […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Utah Symposium on the Digital Humanities 2019

From the CFP: The fourth Utah Symposium on the Digital Humanities continues conversations that have taken place at earlier DHU conferences. It enables scholars in Utah and neighboring regions to dwell further on issues that are of concern to the digital humanities. DHU4 explores the links and intersections which join humans, machines, and disparate vocational cultures. […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Assistant/Associate Professor of History (Digital History), Penn State

From the ad: The Pennsylvania State University, Department of History invites applications for a tenured or tenure-track position in digital history with a specialization in any field. The appointment will be made at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor, depending upon qualifications, and will begin in August 2019. The successful applicant should be able […]

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Job: Open Educational Technology Specialist (Two Vacancies), CUNY

From the ad: The TLC and GCDI seek two Open Educational Technology Specialists who will work on programming related to CUNY’s institutional investment in Open Educational Resources (OER). Beginning in 2017 and continuing into the upcoming academic year, New York State has made significant investments in supporting the development, deployment, and integration of OER across […]